I confess I like the show. Every point here is well made and I've them myself, but I keep coming back to the fact that here is guy, a technical expect and practical applicator of survival who is taking his wife, a tv journalist, the epitome of symbolism* over substance, and teaching her concepts of his trade.

Thread Jack (to make a point) I can't watch tv infobabes regarding survival/disaster without thinking of the time when the reportette speaking while sitting in a canoe in a recently flooded area, talking about the treacherous conditions and two fire fighters walk into frame and the water is shin deep.